CodeIgniter Module Manager

A module is a self-contained package that adds a specific feature to your application. CodeIgniter 4 provides native module support, making it easy to organize functionality into isolated, reusable components.

This package provides a structured way to install, manage, and maintain the entire lifecycle of your modules, ensuring they can be added, updated, or removed cleanly and consistently.

Requirements

The Module Lifecycle

Modules move through distinct states during their lifetime:

• Scanning discovers modules in your directory and registers their metadata with the system.

• Installation creates the database schema by running migrations. The module is prepared but not yet active.

• Enabling makes the module fully functional. Its routes become available, its namespace is autoloaded, and it participates in handling requests.

• Updating applies incremental migrations or other update tasks.

• Disabling deactivates functionality but preserves all data in the database.

• Uninstalling performs a complete cleanup by rolling back migrations and removing database tables.

This separation between installation (database setup) and enabling (activation) gives you fine-grained control and matches patterns used in other systems like Prestashop, Wordpress, Drupal and Magento.